Biographical Information
Ferruccio Furlanetto was born on May 16, 1949, in Sacile, Italy. Originally he studied classical philology and natural science, but at the age of 22, he decided to pursue singing and musical studies instead.
He made his professional debut in 1974. Some sources list the role as Colline in Puccini's La Bohème in Triest; others as Sparafucile in Verdi's Rigoletto in Lonigo.
In 1977 he won a singing competition (and the title role of Don Giovanni) in Treviso. His United States debut took place the following year in New Orleans, where he sang Zaccaria in Verdi's Nabucco. In 1979 he made his La Scala debut, singing the role of Banquo in Verdi's MacBeth under Claudio Abbado.
In 1980 he debuted at Glyndebourne as Melibeo in Haydn's La fedeltà premiata, and at the Met in New York as the Grand Inquisitor in Verdi's Don Carlo. His Vienna State Opera debut came in 1985 with the title role in Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro.
Mr. Furlanetto has has performed at the major opera houses in cities all over the world including Vienna, London, Paris, New York, Rome, Milan, Turin, Palermo, St. Petersburg, Geneva, Buenos Aires, Tokyo, and San Diego. In 2001 he was awarded the title Kammersänger by the Vienna State Opera.
Miscellanea:
Mr. Furlanetto is an Honorary Ambassador to the United Nations and participates in humanitarian activities. He is also an enthusiastic golfer, and, if the translation of an article in the 6-3-97 Corriere della Sera can be trusted, he has an appreciation for race cars and Fragolino wine.
Roles & Repertoire
The following is a list of roles Mr. Furlanetto has sung onstage and / or recorded in the studio. An 'X' in the Recording column means only that there is a recording (audio or video) of Mr. Furlanetto in that particular role; the role may or may not have been performed on stage.
Some roles have been recorded more than once, and not all recordings are currently available. Check out the Recordings page for further details.
* Asterisks denote current repertoire according to Muiscaglotz.
This list is not complete. Know any other roles? Please contact me!
| Composer | Work | Role | Recording |
| Bellini | La Sonnambula | Conte Rodolfo | X |
| Norma | Oroveso (in preparation) |
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| Boito | Mefistofele | Mefistofele | |
| Debussy | Pelléas et Mélisande | Arkel, roi d'Allemonde | |
| Donizetti | Don Pasquale | Don Pasquale |
X |
| Lucia di Lammermoor | Raimondo | ||
| Les Martyrs | Félix | X |
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| Roberto Devereux | Sir Gualtiero Raleigh | X |
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| Gazzaniga | Don Giovanni | Pasquariello | X |
| Gounod | Faust | Mephistopheles* | X |
| Haydn | La Fedeltà premiata | Melibeo | |
| Halevy | La Juive | Cardinal Brogni* | X |
| Massenet | Le Cid | Don Diego | |
| Don Quichotte | Don Quichotte* | ||
| Hérodiade | Phanuel | X |
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| Manon | Count des Grieux | ||
| Moussorgski | Boris Godunov | Boris Godunov* | |
| Montemezzi | L’amore dei Tre Re | Archibaldo* | |
| Mozart | Don Giovanni | Don Giovanni* | X |
| Leporello | X |
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| Cosí fan tutte | Guglielmo | X |
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| Don Alfonso | X |
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| Le nozze di Figaro | Figaro | X |
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| Conte Almaviva | X |
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| Pizzetti | Assassinio nella Cattedrale | Becket* | |
| Ponchielli | La Gioconda | Alvise Badoero | X |
| Puccini | La Bohéme | Colline | |
| Turandot | Timur | ||
| Rossini | Armida | Astarotte | X |
| Idraote | X |
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| Il Barbiere di Siviglia | Don Basilio | X |
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| La Cenerentola | Don Magnifico | ||
| La gazza ladra | Fernando Villabella | X |
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| L'italiana in Algeri | Mustafà | ||
| Semiramide | Assur | X |
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| Le siege de Corinthe | Mahomet II | ||
| Il viaggio a Reims | Lord Sidney | X |
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| R. Strauss | Elektra | Orest | |
| Der Rosenkavalier | Ochs (in preparation)* | ||
| Polizeikommissär | |||
| Tchaikovski | Eugen Oneguin | Gremin* | |
| Thomas | Hamlet | Claudius | |
| Verdi | Aida | Ramphis | |
| Attila | Attila* | X |
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| Don Carlos / Don Carlo |
Philippe II / Filippo II* |
X |
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| Inquisitor | X |
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| Monk | |||
| Ernani | Don Ruy Gomez de Silva | ||
| La forza del destino | Padre Guardiano* | ||
| Jérusalem | Roger | ||
| I lombardi | Pagano | ||
| Luisa Miller | Count Walter | ||
| MacBeth | Banquo | ||
| Nabucco | Zaccaria | X |
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| Oberto | Oberto | ||
| Rigoletto | Sparafucile | X |
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| Simone Boccanegra | Jacopo Fiesco* | X |
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| La Traviata | Dr. Grenvil | X |
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| I vespri sciliani / Les Vêpres Siciliennes |
Giovanni da Procida* / Jean de Procide |
X |
